OUTTAKES – Nintendo World Championships

These are outtakes from the AVGN Episode (#104) Nintendo World Championships. (See the episode here) Also, to give you more insight on the making of the episode, here is how it all happened:

Pat the NES Punk does his own series of game reviews. I met him at the ScrewAttack Gaming Convention briefly and later Comic Con. I became aware that he is a hardcore collector of NES stuff and even has a legit Nintendo World Championships cartridge. (The grey version) During my stay at Comic Con, he wanted me to film a short cameo for his Nintendo World Championships video (Yes, he did his own video about it first.)

Pat’s “NWC” video showed him as a collector who stumbles upon an NWC grey cart, and then ends up losing it to an unknown person. At the end, I show up, in my cameo, holding the game. It’s not clear whether or not it is really “James” or the AVGN. At the time, it was just a cameo, and I never expected it would go further, or that I would ever bother to make my own NWC video. It was never on the Nerd’s agenda.

Pat made a second video, since he came for a visit, and we filmed ourselves playing NES games. I was not in character and there was no script. At the end, Pat finds the grey cart in my collection and runs out the door with it. Again, I had no plans of following up on it.

Things changed when Pat got his hands on an NWC gold cartridge (I’m sure he paid an insane price). He asked me if I’d be interested in shooting another video and immediately the creative ideas started flourishing. My AVGN plans were to make regular basic episodes that each only take 15-20 hours to make. (Well this one ended up being 70 hours) I knew it would slow down production on the AVGN Movie, but hey, it’s a very rare opportunity to make a video with TWO of the most rare games of all time!

Pat and I bounced ideas back and forth. One of his original ideas was to take it in a supernatural direction where the two games unleash a magical power when combined. One of mine was to make it a spoof of The Maltese Falcon, with gangsters approaching the Nerd, willing to kill for the game. Eventually we decided a more down to earth approach about two gamers trying to con each other. It’s a tale of greed.

My decision was to ignore the previous videos I filmed with Pat. They don’t fit into the storyline. I wanted to start fresh. I can’t speak for Pat, but he has some ideas addressing this, which you may see in his upcoming videos. I wrote the script and spoke with Pat regularly during the writing process. Pat knew his own character, as did I, so he would handle most of his character’s lines of dialogue. The incident that gets the plot moving is when the Nerd buys a box of games from an Ebay auction. I’ve gotten a lot of questions if this really happened. But no, this was fiction, just to get the plot moving. The fact is, Pat owns both NWC games. I was just inventing my own story to be able to use the games.

Since the Nerd is known to smash games, I thought it would be hilarious for the Nerd to smash these super rare expensive games and shock the audience. Of course, we made fake games to use as stunt props, using a Top gun and Legend of Zelda cartridge.

The outtakes show a little glimpse of what it was like making the video. Enjoy.

Great video. Hopefully you’re working on the next avgn video. Once again consider the requests from fans. I notice you have a Gilligan’s Island game, maybe you can review that one. Or some other crappy game.

wait…….YOU DESTROYED A LOZ CARTRIDGE!?!??!?!?!?!!!!!! I seriously hope you have extras! Legend of Zelda is like one of the greatest game FRANCHISES in history! you’re telling me an original cartridge of the very first one doesn’t have SOME value!?

Both the original and the outtakes are golden. And don’t forget about that Maltese Falcon idea – it’s solid and I’d love to see you revisit it somewhere down the road. Maybe an idea for when you track down your own NWC…

There is a game for the Atari 2600 called Air Raid. It was the only game made by a company called Men-A-Vision (see what they did there?). A couple of years ago, a boxed complete copy went for over $31,000 dollars on ebay, as it was the only full boxed copy ever found. That makes it an honest to goodness one of a kind, and while the gold NWC carts are less numerous, that Air Raid one currently ranks as the highest amount ever paid for a single video game.

There are also a few games that are even LESS numerous than the gold NWC carts, but the demand for them isn’t so high. (There is a Dreamcast game with only FIVE known copies to exist…even if it is just a special edition of another game).

Anyway, damn good video. I would have liked to have seen the supernatural version, actually. I can see you and Pat suiting up as Ghostbusters to take down the evil carts! ROB could have even made an appearance, as you both have had problems with that thing in the past.

I gotta say, some of the gags in the outtake were pretty funny! some shoulda made it (especially the nerd stare down). Anyways, thanks for going the extra mile to make this vid even though your strapped on time as it is.

im just out of luck with the ads.. eventhough i watch it on youtube i usually get ads like crazy.. well… since i dont watch tv.. so . at least it got some ads from youtube i guess ..but what is obnoxious is on cinemassacre some i get same frekin ads for everty frekin video… i gave up with all the ads playing on videos but… for the love of god.. i dont wanna watch same frekin ads for 50 million times..

It was a genious idea to smash the both NWC cartridges! I were f*****g shitting my pants when I saw the hammer and straight away thought the games will now be destroyed! I read all the comments for the video and couldnt find an answer if someone knew it was the real cartridges being destroyed.

Then I saw this video about outtakes and I watched it VERY intense to see if there would be any info about smashing the cartridges, and it was. FInally my pulse came back to a normal level after 10min :D.Shocking the audience always works and this was a prime example of it.

If you get ads, you’re a sucker. I watch videos all the time from sites like this, Nes pink, and tgwtg, I never get ads. I have a lot of plugins, but I think it’s Adblock. I also hit Hulu and don’t get ads there either. The screen goes black when an ad is suppose to interrupt the show, but the ad doesn’t play. It just has a black screen with the ad timer then resumes the show when the timer runs out. I see no reason not to block the ads, as I’m never, ever, going to go to the sites they advertise anyway. It’s not like me not seeing the ads hurts anything.

I couldn’t stop laughing through the whole videojames and pat are hilarious when working together and some of these outakes should’ve been in the video XD the 1:14 takes should’ve beenIf you can add any minutes to your videos without going through too much extra work you should go for it 😛